President Obama delivered a stirring speech this week that was hard for the GOP to swallow, as Marco Rubio proved in his parched rendition of a rebuttal which was just a stream of repeated talking points that poured out of his mouth.

So this week’s music thread is a tribute to the gulp heard round the world. Songs about water, drinking and all things that are all wet…like the GOP.

One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer – George Throughgood and the Destroyers

Speakers Corner

With all of the hoopla surrounding the films screened in the Obama White House, I got curious about what the past presidents watched. What follows is by no means complete, but an interesting bit of history.

Share this:

The film is a truly great mixture of drama, resistance to the forces of politics, the adroit combination comedy, and love story, in a culinary battle for the utmost Michilin Star rating for an established French fine dining enterprise that is a mere 100 feet apart from a brand new (to the village) Indian restaraunt.

Share this:

NEW YORK (AP) — How time flies in this very mad world! It seems
like only yesterday that the 1960s were dawning for Don Draper, his
family and his comrades at the Sterling Cooper advertising agency.
Now, as if in the blink of an eye, the '60s are waning as "Mad Men"
nears the end of its glorious run.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Transportation unions brought
Argentina to a standstill on Tuesday with a one-day national strike
to protest income tax rates and high inflation they say is eroding
their earnings.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Nuclear talks between Iran and six
world powers could be extended past Tuesday's deadline for the
outline of an agreement if enough progress is made to justify it,
the White House said.

NEW YORK (AP) — A day after Trevor Noah was declared the new
host of "The Daily Show," complete with the blessing of the exiting
Jon Stewart, graphic tweets targeting women, Jews and Middle
America are causing a social media backlash.

KUWAIT CITY (AP) — International donors committed $3.8 billion
in aid for Syrians affected by the grinding civil war at a donors'
conference in Kuwait on Tuesday, less than half of what the U.N.
requested for this year to cope with the growing humanitarian
crisis.

OUARZAZATE, Morocco (AP) — The people are restive, the
priesthood is scheming and a fanatic band of insurgents known as
the zealots are plotting assassinations — and now to make matters
worse, the body of a condemned cult-leader known as Jesus has
disappeared from the tomb, apparently following some ancient
prophecy.

BERLIN (AP) — Lufthansa knew six years ago that the co-pilot of
the passenger plane that crashed in the French Alps last week had
suffered from a "serious depressive episode," the German airline
said Tuesday.

BEDFORD, N.H. (AP) — Likely Democratic presidential candidate
Martin O'Malley says it's "shameful" for Republicans to support an
Indiana law that critics see as legalizing discrimination against
gays and lesbians.

Lawyers for alleged Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev said
Tuesday no more defense witnesses would be called to testify in his
trial. "That is all the witnesses that the defense will present,"
lawyer Tim Watkins informed the court after the testimony of an FBI
fingerprint expert called for the defense. Tsarnaev, 21, could face
the death penalty if convicted for the April 2013 attacks on the
Boston Marathon which left three people dead and wounded 264.